NPD Global Product Manager
Description
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 2 Oct 2026
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
Join Medtronic as an NPD Global Product Manager and help shape the future of electrophysiology innovation. In this high-impact role, you will translate customer and market insights into product strategy, requirements, and roadmaps; identify unmet needs and growth opportunities; and partner with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Sales, and regional marketing teams to advance meaningful solutions from concept through launch. We are looking for a strategic, collaborative, and commercially minded product leader with medical device experience who can influence across functions, engage customers and physicians, and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working onsite a minimum of 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
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Formulates and reviews corporate short and long-range plans, goals, and objectives for specific product or product line, in order to define and maintain the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
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Conducts competitive product analysis and market research of product consumer behavior and professional audience.
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Determines the profitability and viability of new products or product enhancements. Drive market analysis, segmentation and positioning development.
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Identify unmet customer needs and commercial opportunities.
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Develops product user needs and marketing strategies and tactics to ensure effective product placement relative to market opportunity, working closely with product development for a specific product, brand, or product area over its entire life cycle.
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Leads voice-of-customer (VOC) and voice-of-business (VOB) activities to guide the product user needs at each stage of product development partnering with all markets, and convert insights into clear product requirements.
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Works with other functions to finalize product specifications. Work closely with R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Sales, Clinical, and Medical Affairs to ensure alignment on product definition and development.
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Serves as technical adviser, demonstrating products and troubleshooting product issues.
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Constructively garners input and challenges assumptions with Global counterparts to refine product decisions.
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Positively represents the company by visiting accounts and users to solicit feedback on company products and services.
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Consolidates and disseminates a deep understanding of the competitive global EP Ablation landscape by region.
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Supports regional training of marketing and sales teams.
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Develop and leverage marketing insights to simplify segmentation, product positioning, message development, channel identification, tool creation, and execution to meet business objectives.
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Network with colleagues in other divisions and cross-functional departments to align strategies and opportunities.
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Demonstrate a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality.
Min Requirements
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Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
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May have broad knowledge of project management.
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Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
Preferred Experience:
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Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business, clinical or related Healthcare/Biomedical field
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5+ years of work experience in marketing, strategy, business, and/or sales operations
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Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in product management in a commercial medical device setting
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Excellent Project Management skills and ability to work cross-functionally
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Must have ability to drive communications strategies and influence stakeholders
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Proven Business Acumen
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Experience defining and utilizing a broad range of secondary research, primary qualitative and primary quantitative research techniques to identify and address customer insights into clinical data
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Ability to create and sustain relationship development/collaborate with a broad set of stakeholders, Marketing, Clinical, R&D, Health Economics, and Sales
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Clinical and/or product marketing experience
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Experience with market and revenue modeling.
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Outstanding customer service skills, both internal and external to the organization.
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Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
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Self-starter that anticipates and has a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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Ability to collaborate with and influence key stakeholders without direct authority.
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Flexibility to travel up to 20% (including international) in support of tradeshows, internal meetings and customer programs as required.
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Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively to meet deadlines.
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Advanced degrees including MS, PhD or MBA.
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Specific medical device experience in the electrophysiology field.
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Previous clinical support or mapping experience is preferred.
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Proven track record to physician and KOL engagement.
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Single use device and capital product launch experience
SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes .
Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager. Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.
Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results .
May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.
Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation .
Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
Implements solutions